Indie Drug Cult - Acid Test Lyrics

I'm here to talk about LSD

Now you see what is uh...
Let me speak specifically for a moment
I said the subject of this is LSD
LSD is one such chemical
That does produce this curious effect
Of making you aware of the polarity of things
It does lots of other things
And when the national magazines try to illustrate the effects of these chemicals with various photographs
They come on with blurred photographs
If uh... You wanted some sort of appropriate illustration
For a Life magazine article on the effects of LSD
Uh... You would have one very simple solution
You would publish the most gorgeous color reproductions of Persian miniatures
And of Moorish arabesques, and of the illuminations of Celtic manuscripts
That would give you the story

But there would be one thing very difficult to put across in pictures
Because the people who looked at them if they didn't get the point of view wouldn't see it
And that is what I will call the sensation as well as the intellectual understanding of polarity
That the inside and the outside
The subjective and the objective
The self and the other
Go together
It isn't that what goes on outside is so powerful that it pushes around
And controls what goes on inside
Equally so, it isn't that what goes on inside is so strong that
It often succeeds in pushing around what goes on outside
This is not something that arrived in the world from somewhere else all together
But confronts an alien reality
What you are
Is the universe, and in fact, the works, what there is, and always has been
And always will be forever and ever
Performing an act called "John Doe"
And this is such a subversion of common sense
But is at fact, matter of fact, something, if you stop to think about it, that is completely obvious